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Poe Death Clue #4: Poe experienced hallucinations and was "totally deranged" for ten days shortly before his arrival to Richmond.
You will see at once, by the handwriting of this letter, that I am better--much better in health and spirits. Oh, if you only knew how your dear letter comforted me! It acted like magic. Most of my suffering arose from that terrible area which I could not giet rid of--the idea that you were dead. For more than ten days I was totally deranged, although I was not drinking one drop; and during this interval I imagined the most horrible calamities... All was hallucination, arising from an attack which I had never before experienced--an attack of manie-a-potu. May Heaven grant that it prove a warning to me for the rest of my days. If so, I shall regret even the horrible unspeakable torments I have endured. --Edgar Allan Poe, Letter to Maria Clemm, June 19, 1847
Poe Death Clue #4:
Poe experienced hallucinations and was "totally deranged" for ten days shortly before his arrival to Richmond.
You will see at once, by the handwriting of this letter, that I am better--much better in health and spirits. Oh, if you only knew how your dear letter comforted me! It acted like magic. Most of my suffering arose from that terrible area which I could not giet rid of--the idea that you were dead. For more than ten days I was totally deranged, although I was not drinking one drop; and during this interval I imagined the most horrible calamities... All was hallucination, arising from an attack which I had never before experienced--an attack of manie-a-potu. May Heaven grant that it prove a warning to me for the rest of my days. If so, I shall regret even the horrible unspeakable torments I have endured.
--Edgar Allan Poe, Letter to Maria Clemm, June 19, 1847